There are 600 FedExCup points available to the winner. Tiger Woods is the current leader with 1,740 points, but there are two golfers (Brandt Snedeker and Billy Horschel) who are less than 600 points behind Tiger.

Needless to say, winning the event could produce a major move in the FedExCup standings.

The total purse for the event is $9,500,000, but the winner's share is $1,710,000.

Here are the tee times, first-round pairings and predictions for Thursday's action. The sections are divided by tee. The first and 10th tee have a morning and afternoon set of players beginning their day.

The group teeing off at 8:08 a.m. is the one that jumps out from the morning session on the first tee. D.A. Points (seventh) and Kevin Streelman (fifth) are both in the top 10 in the FedExCup standings.

Tim Clark is only 29th, but he has two top-10 finishes so far this season. Points got off to a rough start this year; he missed seven of the first nine cuts he faced in tournaments.

He has rebounded in the last month with three top-five finishes, including a win at the Shell Houston Open. He and Streelman were sharp in their last outing.

They finished 16th and sixth, respectively, at the Wells Fargo Championship last week. Of the three, Clark performed the best in The Players Championship in 2012, though.

Points didn't compete, Streelman was tied for 51st, but Clark was a respectable three under for the tournament. That was good for a tie for 25th place. He also won the event in 2010 to capture his first PGA Tour victory.

Will the Americans with the hot hand fare better, or will the South African with better recent history outshine them?

Player Most Likely to Shine on Thursday

Lucas Glover

The 33-year-old from Greenville, S.C., has been playing very well lately, especially on the first day of tournaments. He shot out of the gate with a 65 at the Zurich Classic and a 68 at the Wells Fargo Championship.

He didn't win either tournament, but he's a good bet to start strong at TPC Sawgrass.

TPC Sawgrass Tee No. 10

Group

Time

Players

13

7:15 am

USA-Duke, Ken

USA-Guthrie, Luke

RSA-Grace, Branden

14

7:26 am

ITA-Molinari, Francesco

USA-Tringale, Cameron

SWE-Hanson, Peter

15

7:36 am

USA-Bohn, Jason

USA-Walker, Jimmy

USA-Castro, Roberto

16

7:47 am

USA-Crane, Ben

AUS-Baddeley, Aaron

USA-Kelly, Jerry

17

7:57 am

USA-McNeill, George

USA-Stanley, Kyle

USA-Steele, Brendan

18

8:08 am

USA-Fowler, Rickie

USA-Mahan, Hunter

USA-Furyk, Jim

19

8:18 am

NIR-McDowell, Graeme

USA-Bradley, Keegan

USA-Watson, Bubba

20

8:29 am

USA-Horschel, Billy

USA-Johnson, Dustin

USA-Els, Ernie

21

8:39 am

USA-Scott, Adam

NIR-McIlroy, Rory

USA-Stricker, Steve

22

8:50 am

USA-Gainey, Tommy

USA-Huh, John

AUS-Allenby, Robert

23

9:00 am

USA-Weekley, Boo

ARG-Romero, Andres

SWE-Lingmerth, David

24

9:11 am

AUS-Jones, Matt

ENG-Davis, Brian

USA-Thompson, Nicholas

Most Intriguing Pairing

Scott, McIlroy and Stricker

Any group that includes the current Masters champion and Rory will be hard to beat out for attention. Even though Stricker has seen his better days pass, he still mustered a respectable 20th-place finish at Augusta.

Neither Scott nor Stricker has played on the PGA Tour since Augusta, but McIlroy has been working to break through this season. He's yet to capture a win, but he does have three top-10 finishes.

The afternoon session on the first tee will be packed with stars. But one group is clearly the one to watch. Tiger is paired with the defending champion in the event in Kuchar and the man that sits behind him in the FedExCup standings in Snedeker.

Some aspect of this trio could easily be paired together on the final day as well.

Most of the talk around Woods has been centered on his failure to win a major, but we can easily take for granted just how good he's been this season.

He has three wins, he finished fourth at the Masters and hasn't missed a cut. Tiger is playing really well and should be a force at TPC Sawgrass.

Kuchar won last year's event with a stellar and consistent 13-under-par score for the tournament. He's been pretty solid this season with three top-10 finishes.

Snedeker has been tough to figure out. He's either been really good or really bad. He's missed two cuts and had a 59th-place finish at the RBC Heritage Classic. However, he also won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and had four other top-10 finishes.

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Sneds: "Inside 5 feet this year I've been terrible. That's my big key right now. I think I'm like 120-something on TOUR from there."

Mickleson played pretty well at the Wells Fargo Championship last week. He seemed to find a nice rhythm. Lefty finished third in the event, but he was consistent throughout.

I think his solid play will carry over to this tournament—at least in the first round of play.

TPC Sawgrass Tee No. 10

Group

Time

Players

38

12:25 pm

USA-Howell III, Charles

USA-Driscoll, James

AUS-Chalmers, Greg

39

12:36 pm

DEN-Olesen, Thorbjorn

ESP-Fdez-Castano, Gonzalo

USA-Flores, Martin

40

12:46 pm

USA-Hoffman, Charley

USA-Palmer, Ryan

KOR-Noh, Seung-Yul

41

12:57 pm

SWE-Blixt, Jonas

AUS-Leishman, Marc

USA-Wagner, Johnson

42

1:07 pm

USA-Curtis, Ben

RSA-Goosen, Retief

USA-Love III, Davis

43

1:18 pm

USA-Haas, Bill

GER-Kaymer, Martin

SWE-Jacobson, Freddie

44

1:28 pm

USA-Moore, Ryan

SWE-Pettersson, Carl

USA-Dufner, Jason

45

1:39 pm

USA-Thompson, Michael

USA-Kirk, Chris

RSA-Schwartzel, Charl

46

1:49 pm

SCT-Laird, Martin

USA-Brown, Scott

USA-Piercy, Scott

47

2:00 pm

USA-Herron, Tim

USA-Perez, Pat

USA-Hahn, James

48

2:10 pm

ENG-Owen, Greg

CAN-Hearn, David

USA-Claxton, Will

49

2:21 pm

USA-Stroud, Chris

ENG-Lynn, David

USA-Stadler, Kevin

Most Intriguing Pairing

Consider the afternoon session from the 10th tee as the group most likely to produce a sleeper. None of the names jump out as players who are currently elite, but the Curtis-Goosen-Love III pairing could be interesting.

In the bigger tournaments, there always seems to be a player about 10 years past his prime that contends for three and sometimes all four days.

This pairing could produce that presence at The Players Championship in 2013.

DL III has won the event twice, but he has barely played this year. Goosen has twice won the U.S. Open, but his 2013 outings have rendered only one top-10 finish.

Curtis is the youngest of the group and the least accomplished. He's missed more cuts than he's made in 2013, and he's won only three times since he won the British Open in 2003.

But that's why they call them sleepers.

Player Most Likely to Shine on Thursday

Marc Leishman

Leishman has been playing well this season with three top-10 finishes. What I've noticed most about him in recent tournaments is his growing confidence and poise.

He was in contention for all four days at the Masters and the experience will serve him well. This could be a breakout performance for him.